TRON is a fascinating test case for the cultural difference between the analogue and the digital (rather like the animations in the TV HHG2G). It is an entirely analogue attempt to represent the digital. The sequels are digital attempts to recreate an analogue attempt to represent the digital.
I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.
October 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
TRON is a fascinating test case for the cultural difference between the analogue and the digital (rather like the animations in the TV HHG2G). It is an entirely analogue attempt to represent the digital. The sequels are digital attempts to recreate an analogue attempt to represent the digital.
i think about this bit in HHG2G a lot. between that and the vogon poetry, that is.
i love HHG2G. definitely prefer the TV version.
i love HHG2G. definitely prefer the TV version.
December 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
i think about this bit in HHG2G a lot. between that and the vogon poetry, that is.
i love HHG2G. definitely prefer the TV version.
i love HHG2G. definitely prefer the TV version.
I'm going to be 42 in a couple of weeks. I want to do something HHG2G themed. 🤔
May 25, 2024 at 8:40 AM
I'm going to be 42 in a couple of weeks. I want to do something HHG2G themed. 🤔
❝
Here I am,
brain the size
of a planet
and you want to
talk to me about life.
I’d give you advice,
but you wouldn’t listen.
No one ever does. ❞
~ #DouglasAdams
#MarvintheParanoidAndroid
#HitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy
#HHG2G
( #JWST NIRCam image of the Exposed Cranium Nebula
credit: NASA )
Here I am,
brain the size
of a planet
and you want to
talk to me about life.
I’d give you advice,
but you wouldn’t listen.
No one ever does. ❞
~ #DouglasAdams
#MarvintheParanoidAndroid
#HitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy
#HHG2G
( #JWST NIRCam image of the Exposed Cranium Nebula
credit: NASA )
February 25, 2026 at 9:19 PM
❝
Here I am,
brain the size
of a planet
and you want to
talk to me about life.
I’d give you advice,
but you wouldn’t listen.
No one ever does. ❞
~ #DouglasAdams
#MarvintheParanoidAndroid
#HitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy
#HHG2G
( #JWST NIRCam image of the Exposed Cranium Nebula
credit: NASA )
Here I am,
brain the size
of a planet
and you want to
talk to me about life.
I’d give you advice,
but you wouldn’t listen.
No one ever does. ❞
~ #DouglasAdams
#MarvintheParanoidAndroid
#HitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy
#HHG2G
( #JWST NIRCam image of the Exposed Cranium Nebula
credit: NASA )
a HHG2G branded towel made with a built in air-tag, so you always know where it is. You hoopty-frood.
June 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
a HHG2G branded towel made with a built in air-tag, so you always know where it is. You hoopty-frood.
“You think you’ve got problems? What are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No, don’t try and answer that. I’m fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don’t know the answer.” - Marvin, from HHG2G.
What if human-equivalent (or greater) artificial intelligence doesn’t save the world, or destroy the world, but a secret third thing.
March 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“You think you’ve got problems? What are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No, don’t try and answer that. I’m fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don’t know the answer.” - Marvin, from HHG2G.
I don't really remember differentiating between adult fiction and young adult fiction after I started reading fluently. I think I read HHG2G the same year I read Jurassic Park, and neither of those was the first grown-up book I read.
March 22, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I don't really remember differentiating between adult fiction and young adult fiction after I started reading fluently. I think I read HHG2G the same year I read Jurassic Park, and neither of those was the first grown-up book I read.
"Hotblack Desiato" is such a fucking good name, so seared into my brain it might be the only wrinkle on the whole thing; if you said to me 'think of a name,' I'm going to think 'Hotblack Desiato.' #hhg2g
July 23, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"Hotblack Desiato" is such a fucking good name, so seared into my brain it might be the only wrinkle on the whole thing; if you said to me 'think of a name,' I'm going to think 'Hotblack Desiato.' #hhg2g
Siri play HHG2G but it's Firefly
November 14, 2023 at 7:10 AM
Siri play HHG2G but it's Firefly
As always, and now more than ever: Don't Panic.
Happy #TowelDay to all my hoopy froods. #RIPDouglasAdams #hhg2g #TowelDay2020
Happy #TowelDay to all my hoopy froods. #RIPDouglasAdams #hhg2g #TowelDay2020
November 23, 2024 at 3:16 PM
As always, and now more than ever: Don't Panic.
Happy #TowelDay to all my hoopy froods. #RIPDouglasAdams #hhg2g #TowelDay2020
Happy #TowelDay to all my hoopy froods. #RIPDouglasAdams #hhg2g #TowelDay2020
Watching the original HHG2G
Ford orders 6 (maybe 8) pints and says keep the change... From a fiver, at which point the landlord thinks he's being worryingly generous.
Ford orders 6 (maybe 8) pints and says keep the change... From a fiver, at which point the landlord thinks he's being worryingly generous.
November 10, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Watching the original HHG2G
Ford orders 6 (maybe 8) pints and says keep the change... From a fiver, at which point the landlord thinks he's being worryingly generous.
Ford orders 6 (maybe 8) pints and says keep the change... From a fiver, at which point the landlord thinks he's being worryingly generous.
If you haven't watched @greigarjohnson.bsky.social's latest video, you really should. It's a lovingly handmade tribute to HHG2G which is simply staggering in it's ambition. Also check out his making-of video, a lovely letter to handmade art and doing things for the enjoyment youtu.be/-431pDOiYRQ?...
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September 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If you haven't watched @greigarjohnson.bsky.social's latest video, you really should. It's a lovingly handmade tribute to HHG2G which is simply staggering in it's ambition. Also check out his making-of video, a lovely letter to handmade art and doing things for the enjoyment youtu.be/-431pDOiYRQ?...
March 11, 2024 at 6:49 AM
March 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Explain my username: Frood- One who is cool, calm, and always has their towel. (Froody- adjective describing a frood.)
I love HHG2G series and it's world, it's silliness and cleverness it's a reference to that. x3 also love sweet and desserts am the self proclaimed matriarch of rice pudding >:3
I love HHG2G series and it's world, it's silliness and cleverness it's a reference to that. x3 also love sweet and desserts am the self proclaimed matriarch of rice pudding >:3
October 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Explain my username: Frood- One who is cool, calm, and always has their towel. (Froody- adjective describing a frood.)
I love HHG2G series and it's world, it's silliness and cleverness it's a reference to that. x3 also love sweet and desserts am the self proclaimed matriarch of rice pudding >:3
I love HHG2G series and it's world, it's silliness and cleverness it's a reference to that. x3 also love sweet and desserts am the self proclaimed matriarch of rice pudding >:3
I think, if Douglas Adams were alive today, he would update Earth from 'mostly harmless' to 'fucking dangerous'.
#hhg2g #showerthoughts #space
#hhg2g #showerthoughts #space
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I think, if Douglas Adams were alive today, he would update Earth from 'mostly harmless' to 'fucking dangerous'.
#hhg2g #showerthoughts #space
#hhg2g #showerthoughts #space
Yes to Minotaur, yes to Android and also he was Hotblack Desiato's bodyguard in HHG2G TV series, which brings us back to Slattibartfast
March 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Yes to Minotaur, yes to Android and also he was Hotblack Desiato's bodyguard in HHG2G TV series, which brings us back to Slattibartfast
My favourite affectionate parody of this trope is still the Total Perspective Vortex from HHG2G.
A device that shows you with crystal clarity just how insignificant you are in the cosmic scheme of things. Utterly destroys people.
Like the Xitter-algo-assisted right-wingers who come to Bluesky. 😆
A device that shows you with crystal clarity just how insignificant you are in the cosmic scheme of things. Utterly destroys people.
Like the Xitter-algo-assisted right-wingers who come to Bluesky. 😆
I think it was Cory Doctrow who pointed out that SF is a luddite genre in the original sense of the word: Not fearful of tech as such, but cautious and critical of how it's likely to be used.
How many SF novels are there (going back to Frankenstein) where the beautiful creation just goes amok?
How many SF novels are there (going back to Frankenstein) where the beautiful creation just goes amok?
August 3, 2026 at 11:34 PM
My favourite affectionate parody of this trope is still the Total Perspective Vortex from HHG2G.
A device that shows you with crystal clarity just how insignificant you are in the cosmic scheme of things. Utterly destroys people.
Like the Xitter-algo-assisted right-wingers who come to Bluesky. 😆
A device that shows you with crystal clarity just how insignificant you are in the cosmic scheme of things. Utterly destroys people.
Like the Xitter-algo-assisted right-wingers who come to Bluesky. 😆
Every day is a good day to talk about Douglas Adams. Everybody talks about HHG2G, but what really screwed with my head were Dirk Gently books.
May 19, 2023 at 2:45 AM
Every day is a good day to talk about Douglas Adams. Everybody talks about HHG2G, but what really screwed with my head were Dirk Gently books.
You must have HHG2G in there somewhere!
November 21, 2024 at 10:39 PM
You must have HHG2G in there somewhere!
Fool me twice, eh?
No, apparently audio f/x in radio drama before HHG2G was door slamming, footsteps and rain. They really took the idea of immersive audio-only production to an unprecedented level with it. But the fact that (like Shakespeare) the original story was a script with f/x shines thru.
No, apparently audio f/x in radio drama before HHG2G was door slamming, footsteps and rain. They really took the idea of immersive audio-only production to an unprecedented level with it. But the fact that (like Shakespeare) the original story was a script with f/x shines thru.
March 29, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Fool me twice, eh?
No, apparently audio f/x in radio drama before HHG2G was door slamming, footsteps and rain. They really took the idea of immersive audio-only production to an unprecedented level with it. But the fact that (like Shakespeare) the original story was a script with f/x shines thru.
No, apparently audio f/x in radio drama before HHG2G was door slamming, footsteps and rain. They really took the idea of immersive audio-only production to an unprecedented level with it. But the fact that (like Shakespeare) the original story was a script with f/x shines thru.
Given the end of "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" - I'd like to think that the 42 in the pile of Scrabble tiles was put there intentionally. #hhg2g
January 12, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Given the end of "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" - I'd like to think that the 42 in the pile of Scrabble tiles was put there intentionally. #hhg2g
“Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?”
-HHG2G
-HHG2G
August 25, 2023 at 3:08 PM
“Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?”
-HHG2G
-HHG2G